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(1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "As anime goes, it's not the most freakish of entries, but it's one of the more surprising and scintillating."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C "If an animated scattershot clusterfuck tweaking under the influence of a determinedly Japanese mindset sounds like a good way to substitute a cinematic drug experience for the real thing, then go right ahead to Satoshi Kon's overflowing excess."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/5 "While the story may make this Kon's least inspired film, the animation is his most inspired."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A- "Manages to create a comfort zone for both Tarzan and Freud."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz B "Some have suggested that taking drugs first would enhance the experience, but really, I don't see how hallucinogens could make the movie any weirder than it is."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Reality and fantasy leak into each other in short-circuiting jolts in Kon's cosmos"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C+ "As a purely sensory experience Paprika is a spicy dish, but one that doesn't deliver much nourishment for the mind."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek A- "Ostensibly, Paprika's a muddled science fiction tale, but below its manga-esque surface it's a penetrating exploration of spectatorship and a celebration of cinematic spectacle."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 8/10 "Kon signe son effort le plus ambitieux à ce jour et rejoint les Katsuhiro 'tomo et Hayao Miyazaki dans les rangs des cinéastes d'animation les plus importants de son époque"   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 7/10 "Sit back and enjoy the detail-rich visuals while appreciating the unfettered imagination at work in constructing them."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 3.5/5 "A slick, accessible and thoroughly entertaining piece of Japanese anime."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 3/4 "The idea of cinema as irrepressible bogeyman might be Kon's own confession."   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich 3/4 "If less thematically dazzling than Millennium Actress, it's suffused with a giddy sense of the seething, mutable landscape of the mind."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh A- "Becomes far more enthralling ... the more one simply surrenders to the awe-inspiring beauty of Kon's images of flesh, metal and unhinged mental delusions."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Plays like the end and the beginning of Japanese cinema: it contradicts itself and contains multitudes."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B "The animation shows brilliant imagination by the filmmakers."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A "All I can say about Paprika...is: Whoa! And, I mean that in a good way, a very good way."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 9/10 "Paprika fills me with such overwhelming enthusiasm as to leave me gibbering."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/4 "This is how post-modernism should always behave: like an acid trip narrated by Derrida."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh Page   1